my opinion....coinmarketcap.com any coin with and asterisk ( * ) next to it is a non-minable coin...meaning it is a centralized private blockchain...so if you care about decentralization then all private chains would suck...

I read somewhere that cryptocoins are considered property (kinda like real estate rather than stocks) by the IRS. Since property is not a stock, do you have to pay capital gains taxes on the sale of property?

I mined eth for a few months...then there was a hack on every node that was up and running. Then I couldn't access my ether on coinbase or my personal wallet....not to mention the bullshit disclaimer you have to agree to before you download it...to each his own but in my experience eth is just one big mess and just waiting to be hacked yet again...just look at what happened with the DAO.....seems like a good trend to make profit with but in my experience more people have lost money with it than have gained...I'll just stick with my Litecoin and Zcash....since Eth is trying to adopt Zcash like code now anyway...Eth has literally taken just about every version of every fork and altered it for its own...which is fine because its open source rules allow for that......the DAO was hacked because the hacker wrote a smart contract that paid him eth based on outside information like the price of bitcoin or something and was able to sifon millions of eth from the DAO...Eth its like segwit with no cryptography involved with the "witness" or outside input